I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.